YES. *exactly*.

or, even, <mune> for 'moon' and <fude> for 'food.'

but there be people in the UK (and parts of the US, i suppose) who make a
toon~tune distinction, so they will not appreciate that much.

but i really encourage you to go forward with this.

matt


On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 10:15 PM, MorphemeAddict <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Silent 'e' is important in English spelling, and getting rid of it without
> some form of compensatory respelling would introduce more ambiguity to what
> we already have. It's often the only way to distinguish between so-called
> long and short vowels, e.g., spin/spine.  I suggest making it more regular,
> so that moon become moone, food become foode, but foot stay the same.
> In fact, I may just start spelling such words that way.
>
> stevo
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Gary Shannon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/hay-festival/10093089/Hay-Festival-2013-Irritating-silent-letters-could-become-obsolete.html
> >
> > Leading linguist David Crystal tells the Telegraph Hay Festival 2013
> > that in 50 years' time silent letters will be dropped from many common
> > words, thanks to the internet.
> >
> > The internet will make English misspellings acceptable, according to
> > one of the country’s most senior linguists, who predicts that in 50
> > years’ time many common words will be spelt without “irritating”
> > silent letters.
> >
> > David Crystal, currently professor of linguists at Bangor University,
> > told the Telegraph Hay Festival that it would be “inevitable” that
> > people would drop the ‘p’ from receipt, and change the ‘c’ from
> > necessary into a ‘s’, as well as “simplifying” other words.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > He said it was neither good nor bad that spelling was changing, but it
> > was “inevitable” in the same way that judgment without the middle ‘e’
> > was now acceptable in many publishers and newspaper style guides.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > (More at the link above)
> >
> > --gary
> >
>